BEJA: Military BA 11 defected
Mário Nunes, left the Air Force and went to Kurdistan to fight the Islamic State.
According to Saturday's Journal News (JN), soldier Air Base 11 (BA11), based in Beja, given by the Portuguese Air Force (FAP), as in "illegitimate absence of situation", from day 14 February, went from last Tuesday to have the "status" of a dodgy.
By photographic and text inserts in your facebook page, military shows that he left for Kurdistan and joined YPG, an armed organization fighting against the Syrian Government, President Bashar al-Assad and the Islamic State.
Mário Nunes, who adopted the name of "Havel Kadel", 21 year old, should have been submitted to the service, Messe da na BA 11, Saturday, day 14, after a vacation, but that did not happen. All contacts made to the mobile phone, in order to try to locate, were unsuccessful. Only two days later and after access to military page, na BA 11 realized that he had left the FAP and joined the YPD.
On 10 February, Mario shared had left the Air Force and who had joined as a soldier of YPG, inserting some photographs of armed men brandishing the yellow flag of the organization.
Immediately arise Comment bemused by colleagues and a message signed by a friend, Kader Kadandir that says "Proud" by the Portuguese attitude. On 11 February, Mario puts a message which says: "To join in the fight against the Islamic State".
Before you go on holiday, colleagues troop, Mário Nunes said he was going to Germany, while the maternal grandmother said go to Sagres, where was the mother, but no one ever, Military, family and friends, you knew the track.
In 2014, Mario was in Turkey and Iraq and one of the arms brought a tattoo in Arabic that read "Death to America". Asked by military colleagues, said he was against Islam and the tattoo was "to mislead". When the attack on Charlie Hebdo French newspaper, the military revolt had several demonstrations against the Islamists and threatened that "one day kill them all", told a colleague.
JN and questioned about the disappearance of the soldier, the Air Force, through its spokesman, Colonel Rui Roque, confirmed that the military was "illegitimate situation of absence from 14 February ", adding that it was "introduced" a process, in order to "determine" the circumstances of. The document added that the FAP past 10 days, it is "giving the notification of the competent authorities" if the Judicial Police Military, since passava be considered a deserter.
Portalegre Natural, Mário Nunes, was regarded as an individual "unbalanced" living within a dysfunctional family, since parents are separated a few years ago. The mother lives in Sagres, is sick and is unemployed, living the grandmother and the father is military GNR in Portalegre, living a second separation situation. The military has a sister who studies at the University of Pan Pablo, Madrid.
In Sagres, sobe anonymity, a woman who knows the family and said that Mario's mother suffers from "serious health problems", having left her grandmother to work in a local restaurant, where he was assistant kitchen, to help her daughter. "Mario has long been not appear in these parts" said the woman.
Through a colleague of GNR, was possible to know that the father of the Mario has tried to contact, but this does not answer the phone. Mario's mother, by phone, called to cry for BA 11, to know the whereabouts of the child.
The case is being handled by General José Pinheiro, Chief of Staff of the Air Force (CEMFA), and the military of BA11, has been asked to "maximum discretion" in comments on the case.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
